Situation: A mob motivated by racial hatred is surrounding and attacking your home. Do you open fire?
Lesson: It’s not “a good shoot” until the triers of the facts say it is, and the aftermath can still be brutal.
2905 Garland Avenue is a handsome brick and clapboard single-family house, which sits at the corner of Garland and Charlevoix in Detroit, Michigan. It’s also the only house I can think of offhand that is now in the National Register of Historical Sites because of a controversial shooting that took place there.
Before the 1967 Detroit race riot that left 43 dead and hundreds injured … before the 1943 Detroit race riot that killed 34 people and injured 433 … there was the Ossian Sweet case.
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